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Ford currently makes its Fiesta subcompact in Mexico, but its Focus and C-Max small cars are made in suburban Detroit. Making them in Mexico would boost company profits because of low wages there.

The company is building a new $1.6 billion assembly plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. It will make small cars there starting in 2018.

Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant, which currently makes the small cars, will be getting new products under a contract signed last year with the United Auto Workers union. They will likely be larger, more profitable vehicles like the Ford Ranger pickup.

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No they ask for higher profit margins to drive the share price up to pad their portfolios. This is why the announcement was made to wall street executives and investors. Last time I checked there are a ton of industries that don't have unionized labor that have there manufacturing centers located overseas. As for the government being the reason, while we do have the highest corporate taxes in the devolved world we also provide the most means of dodging those taxes through creative tax structures and loopholes.

No they ask for higher profit margins to drive the share price up to pad their portfolios. This is why the announcement was made to wall street executives and investors. Last time I checked there are a ton of industries that don't have unionized labor that have there manufacturing centers located overseas. As for the government being the reason, while we do have the highest corporate taxes in the devolved world we also provide the most means of dodging those taxes through creative tax structures and loopholes.

"American automakers pay Mexican workers $8 to $10 per hour, including benefits. Even among the Detroit Three, there is a gap, according to the CAR: GM's labor costs average $58 per hour, while Ford is at $57 per hour and FCA workers average $48. That difference is partly because FCA has more workers earning the lower, entry-level wage."

McDonalds pays their workers about $8-$10 an hour. Perhaps you want that quality of worker assembling your next car. Math is not my strong point so I'm not sure of the percentage difference between $57 and $10 but I can assure you that there won't be an equal percentage discount on the new vehicles.

We can ship all the blue collar jobs overseas and when you can't afford that new $65k f-250 Wall Street will be there to create a new loan product for you so that it can be afforded. Never mind that you are now paying a car note over 10 years.

If the manufacturing facility is built correctly you can have 3 blind parakeets and a chimp doing assembly and it will be correct. There is no reason someone should be paid $58 an hr as an assembly worker. Now if that is their shop rate that rolls overhead in then that's a pretty respectable rate. They way it states labor rate is xyz for ford and gm but fca workers make x is worded oddly.